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should have as its share of the sale
money the sum of $500,000. We urg
ed that this was at least $3,000,000
less than the city was entitled to. We
were defeated in our attempt to 'get
the matter placed before the people
m a referendum. Now, however, the
settlement between the various
phone companies appears to have
failed of realization. The council
minority will press some of their
former claims for the city'sroperty
rights in the automatic h'one sys
tem." J. Ogden Armour and his Chicago
financial -organization has suffered
some -kind of a defeat inside the
American Telephone & Telegraph
Co., according to La Salle street gos
sip. The Armour-Harri man interests
who owned the Automatic are a 'big
power in the A. T. & T. But it looks
as though they're not as strong as
they thought.
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PERSHING'S FORCE TO REMAIN,
MEDIATORS DECIDE
New London, Conn., Sept. 21.
The Mexican-American com'n has
about finished its first task that of
settling the problem of border patrol.
A tentative program for border
patrol was today practically complet
ed. It provides that Gen. Pershing's
forces shall remain whefe they are
for the present. There is an addi
tional provision by which the Car
ranza forces will take over a liberal
share of the work of protecting the
border, but its exact form has not
been revealed.
HUGHES TALKS ON PROTECTION
IN INDIANA
Lafayette, Ind., Sept. 21. 7,000
people packed streets in front of the
uncom emu iiere luuay 10 near sxe-
publican Nominee nugnes expound
doctrine of protection in tariff - and
labor. lb was second Indiana crowd
he had meftoday.
"We want to prepare for our own
peace and security," he said at Mo-
non. "We want to protect American 1
labor and American standards' ofliv
ing. We want to use our govern
mental power in adjusting our tariff
that we can keep our factories run
ning on full time. We want a busy
people a contented people."
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EAT FLESH OF SOLDIERS AS
THEY FALL IN BATTLE
London. Jackals and hjenas,
creeping down 'from the mountains
along the Serbo-Greek frontier, are
feasting on bodies of Bulgarian and
Serbian soldiers.
Three hundred Bulgarian corpses
piled in a heap in one ravine were
stripped of their flesh by jackals and
hyenas at night and by thousands of
crows and vultures that hovered over
the fighting ground in daytime. Dead
Bulgarians had been mowed down in
machine gun attack and lay between
Serbian and Bulgarian lines. When
Serb! advanced they found only skel
etons and bits of torn uniforms.
Progress of battle being waged in
Eastern Rumania still in doubt. Both
Rumanian and Bulgarian war offices
claim big victories. '
Melbourne. Australian house of v
representatives today adopted con
scription by vote of 47 to 12.
London. British troops advanced
south of Ancre last night despite "
heavy resistance. Germans made
strong counter attacks against New
Zealanders; but were beaten off
with heavy losses. ,
Petrograd. Russians captured
693 Germans in fighting in region of
Korytnitza and Sviniuchi. Russians
captured enemy position east of
Pauthermt, taking 438 prisoners and
six machine guns.
Sofia. Russo-Rumanians a fie
maintaining strongly fortified' posi
tions in Dobrudja in face of heavy
Bulgarian attacks. Battle increasing W.
in violence.
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Rock Island, III. Alvina Durst,
alias Vera Engle, 24, whose home is
in Dixon, la., found dead in vacant
lot, following night of debauchery.
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